“Newfoundland and Canada, separate countries for so long, exist as two solitudes within the bosom of a single country more than 65 years after Confederation. They do not understand each other very well. Canadians can be forgiven if they do n… . . . → Read More: The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Two Solitudes #nlpoli

“It is sobering to think,” historian Sean Cadigan wrote in the Telegram on Tuesday, “that the memory of the casualties of war has been used partially for later political purposes for almost a century.”

Newfoundland is changing, Michael Crummey writes in the Newfoundland nationalists’ newspaper, the Globe and Mail. House prices are climbing in St. John’s. There are plenty of expensive restaurants around and people to eat the food and drink the wine sold there.

The Duke of Connaught, Governor General of Canada and uncle of King George, visited St. John’s in the middle of July, 1914. During his visit, he officially opened a new park in St. John’s and inspected the paramilitary groups that formed the basis of Newfoundland’s defence plan in the event of war, of just the . . . → Read More: The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Shapes and sizes #nlpoli